Anthropologist Bernard Saladin d’Anglure dies at 88 – Nunatsiaq News

Feb 20, 2025

‘He had an incredible memory, he would remember every story that Inuit told him,’ remembers Lisa Koperqualuk

French anthropologist and ethnolinguist Bernard Saladin d’Anglure, known for his extensive work studying Inuit culture and spirituality in Nunavik and Nunavut, died Feb. 12 in Toulouse, France.

He was 88.

D’Anglure came to Canada for the first time at 19 years of age with the help of a bursary and grand ambitions to discover Inuit culture, according to a biography from the University of Quebec in Montreal, where he earned a master’s degree in anthropology in 1964.

After arriving in Schefferville, Que., by train, he jumped on a plane and visited many Nunavik villages, starting with Quaqtaq.

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